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ChatGPT Generates Error-Laden Biography

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on January 14, 2023January 14, 2023

ChatGPT (Chat via Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) was released on 11/30/2022, and generated a lot of…

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Should Microsoft Spin Out Windows & Office?

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on January 11, 2022January 11, 2022

On Monday December 27th, I received a message on my Twitter account from Jordan Novet,…

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Internet Explorer: A Brief History [6/2022 update]

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on May 27, 2021June 15, 2022

6/15/2022: Internet Explorer Has Officially Retired In this blog post today, Microsoft confirmed that IE…

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My Start-up Portfolio

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on March 3, 2021January 26, 2023

[Last Updated on Thursday 1/26/2023]My wife Lisa and I are active “angel” investors and advisers.…

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Before Slack and Teams: The Windows Service (1998)

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on November 20, 2020

In 1998, I was working on the “RedShark” project to create a new user interface, along with Joe Belfiore, Steve Capps, and a team of ~15 other Microsoft employees. We imagined this could become a “software as a service” called “Neptune” that would supersede Windows.

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Q+A with Ben about Web Browser History and More

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on September 3, 2020May 26, 2021

My friend Todd Warren is co-teaching a class on Web Development at Ashesi University in…

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The Microsoft Store: 1994, 2009, 2020

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on June 28, 2020

Attending the Doing Business at Microsoft class in 1994 inspired me to propose that Microsoft…

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1994: “Doing Business at Microsoft” class

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on June 28, 2020

With the recent news that Microsoft is permanently closing its retail stores, I recalled the…

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AOL in December, 1994

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on October 24, 2017May 26, 2021

AOL competitors in 1994 included CompuServe, Prodigy, GEnie, and Delphi. The population of the USA…

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The Web is the Next Platform, 5/27/1995

  • by benslivka
  • Posted on August 15, 2017April 12, 2021

I started working full-time on what became Internet Explorer 1.0 in early October, 1994, grew…

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